{"id":536940,"date":"2026-04-18T01:19:48","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T01:19:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/536940\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T01:19:48","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T01:19:48","slug":"rory-mcilroys-financial-empire-its-a-mathematical-certainty-that-he-will-be-a-billionaire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/536940\/","title":{"rendered":"Rory McIlroy&#8217;s financial empire: \u2018It\u2019s a mathematical certainty that he will be a billionaire\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">After his historic win in the Masters last weekend, the Northern Irishman is closing in on Tiger Woods as golf&#8217;s biggest prize-money winner, but it&#8217;s not just his earnings on the course that are propelling him up the rich list\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Rory McIlroy celebrates after winning the Masters golf tournament in Augusta. Photo: David J Phillip\/AP\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/c85034ad-2290-4547-bc32-361a938751eb.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Rory McIlroy celebrates after winning the Masters golf tournament in Augusta. Photo: David J Phillip\/AP<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">TV viewers watching Rory McIlroy\u2019s remarkable victory in the Masters golf tournament last weekend might have noticed a little green band on his wrist as he stepped forward to swing his clubs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The wellness wearable device known as Whoop measured his heartbeats per minute. It tracked his breathing rate \u2013 and even when he was away from the course, it measured how much he was sleeping.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After his historic win in the Masters last weekend, the Northern Irishman is closing in on Tiger Woods&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":536941,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,185458,82178,2623,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-536940","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-kim-bielenberg","10":"tag-review-magazine","11":"tag-rory-mcilroy","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=536940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/536941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}